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Re: Moving ports architectures to libc?
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 03:30:35 +0000
- Subject: Re: Moving ports architectures to libc?
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I have now tagged architecture-specific bugs outside of the ports
component along the lines I suggested - [i386], [powerpc] etc. in the bug
titles and Host set accordingly. I also moved various bugs to other
components, closed bugs etc. as seemed appropriate. Please fix any
mistakes you see, or bugs I failed to tag. My suggestion for bugs in the
ports component is that they should be tagged and have Host set if needed
at the point where they are moved to another component, when the port in
question is moved to the main sysdeps directory.
We still need more people working on bugs, including helping to confirm if
old bugs are still present / are valid non-duplicate bugs, putting them in
appropriate components, tagging, going through past bugs fixing them, and,
where there is controversy over whether something is a bug / whether a
proposed new feature is desirable, taking it to libc-alpha and trying to
drive the consensus process to a conclusion. When I started working
through "math" bugs a couple of years ago, I hoped that other people would
similarly work through open bugs in other areas (including the catch-all
"libc", where maybe there are still things that could be split out into
new components) and become the glibc experts in those areas. We have
Chris doing some of this for "localedata", but other areas still need such
work on their bugs.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com